Tom Harkin Is Reflecting, but Trying Not to Stare
“I just did it, and I got the support for it and set that up. It still exists today,” Harkin said.
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“I just did it, and I got the support for it and set that up. It still exists today,” Harkin said.
“I just did it, and I got the support for it and set that up. It still exists today,” Harkin said.
“What you’re not paying attention to is, I just took an action to change the law,” he said to them, saying he couldn’t understand why the hecklers would still be mad at him.
“This decision seems to underscore an unwritten rule that Black lives hold no value; that you may kill Black men in this country without consequences or repercussions,” Fudge said in a statement
He added, “I find such a cynical, political proposal especially frustrating because appropriators on both sides of the aisle have made great progress on FY15 bills.”
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Monday the president would “strongly oppose” a package of corporate tax cut extenders without doing something for the middle class.
Kerry said the P5+1 parties and Iran would assess the situation if four months pass without a path forward on the political situation.
In a 4-minute news conference outside his office, Boehner said the nation’s immigration system is “broken,” and “the American people expect us to work together to fix it.
The White House’s lawyers concluded Obama didn’t have the authority to do so without Congress, a verdict that’s not sitting well with some of his own supporters.
“I asked the chief of staff to take another look at this for me with the president,” said Udall, who lost his re-election bid to Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo.
McConnell, quoting Obama, said: “‘Democracy is hard,’ he said during a commencement speech in Miami three years ago. ‘But it’s right.
President Barack Obama’s sweeping immigration executive actions will once again test the limits of his legal authority to take action without Congress.
“I would think that there is a very real possibility,” Perry reportedly said.
and ruin the chances for Congressional action on this issue — and many others,” said Boehner spokesman Michael Steel.
“I made the argument on this that had I come in 2004 instead of 2006, I’d have more seniority,” Walz said Wednesday. “The reason I didn’t come in 2004 was that I was deployed.”
“Well, no one wants to move that more quickly than I do,” said the California Democrat. “We are down to essentially one item in the redaction.
“Next year the president could re-nominate him if he so chooses, which I would support him doing; we’d have a Republican Judiciary Committee too,” Isakson said.
“We should push back, fight appropriately, but impeachment and shutting the entire government down takes the focus away from him to us. … I don’t think it’s going to happen,” said Graham, who won
“When Democrats were in the minority, they argued strenuously for the very thing they now say we will have to do without; namely, the right to extended debate on lifetime appointments.